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Tea Bagger Fail of the Day
Tbogg delivers a Tea Bagger epic fail worthy of the Fail Hall of Fame. It's a beatiful thing.
Ass Troturfing
The last time we saw Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, he was participating in Glenn Beck's insane "War Room" episode during which he helped to game out Beck's paranoid delusions. And the...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and pirates.
Cuber
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited transfers of money and visits to relatives in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday, ushering in a new era of openness...
The Bipartisanship Pledge that Never Existed
Scarborough this morning was hitting the president again for going back on his so-called "bipartisanship" pledge. Of course President Obama never pledged any such thing. He called for a change in the...
Operation Ignore
In the last few days, I've seen various hints that liberals are tiring of the crazy talk -- that we should perhaps ignore it and it'll just go away. But I'm not convinced that ignoring the tea...
To Wit
A reader sent along the following very disturbing comment from Glenn Beck's 9-12 Project website: These are the kinds of maniacs who hear calls for battle -- calls to be "armed and dangerous" ...
Morning Awesome
Jason Forrest - "War Photographer" Directed by Joel Trussell
This Is 100 Percent Real
This is an actual workplace safety video from the early 1990s, and -- WARNING! -- it's over-the-top gory to the point of being hilarious (or maybe I'm just in a twisted mood right now). Also...
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday night blogotubing in America.
Deficits and the End of the World
Krugman on today's This Week: The tea baggers have been trying to say that government spending doesn't stimulate the economy (despite piles of math to the contrary) and, as Beck is suggesting, the...
Fox News Fail
Cavuto on FOX News Channel coverage of protests: "We were there for the Million Man March, even though, as I pointed out, it turned out to be well shy of a million men." As Jane points out, FOX News...
'Grassroots'
Glenn Beck is auctioning off $500 a plate lunches at the tea bag rallies. You know, affordable for the working man and all. But Benen observes that the tea baggers are missing the entire point of...
Beck Uses Actor to Incite Violence
Rather than personally inciting violence, Glenn Beck has resorted instead to hiring an actor to dress up like Thomas Paine and incite violence. Listen carefully to the language in the following bit:...
WTF?
Whenever I see a news article containing the line: Siding with the Bush administration, however, the Obama administration... I get a little barfy. It gets worse: The Obama administration said Friday...
Morning Awesome
This afternoon is my favorite race of the pro cycling season: the Paris-Roubaix, also known as "The Hell of the North." 161 miles. 27 section of cobblestones. And, today, there's a chance of rain...
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
The Rationals and The Wingnuts
Charles Johnson, the conservative blogger who runs Little Green Footballs, has been ripping Glenn Beck, the tea baggers, creationism and the Saudi "Bow Gate" thing. And he's been paying the price...
Getting it Right
And when it comes to getting it exactly wrong, here's a shocker: